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Japan: A Japanese toddler sits crying amidst the rubble left by the explosion in Hiroshima following the dropping of the world's first atomic bomb on the city on 6 August 1945

On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 am, the nuclear bomb 'Little Boy' was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, directly killing an estimated 80,000 people.<br/><br/>. By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought the total number of deaths to 90,000166,000. The population before the bombing was around 340,000 to 350,000. Approximately 70% of the city's buildings were destroyed, and another 7% severely damaged.
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Japan: A Japanese toddler sits crying amidst the rubble left by the explosion in Hiroshima following the dropping of the world's first atomic bomb on the city on 6 August 1945
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On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 am, the nuclear bomb 'Little Boy' was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, directly killing an estimated 80,000 people.

. By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought the total number of deaths to 90,000166,000. The population before the bombing was around 340,000 to 350,000. Approximately 70% of the city's buildings were destroyed, and another 7% severely damaged.
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